Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis

  

  Its streaky brown plumage blends into open fields, while breeding males sing during high flights.

• Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia

  The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird lives in Central American mountains and feeds by darting among flowers. White stripes show when it spreads its tail.

• Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus

  The Dusky Warbler is a plain brown, inconspicuous bird that moves through brush and low vegetation.

• Veery Catharus fuscescens

  It breeds in damp forests of North America and winters in South America. It hops through the forest floor while searching for insects and fruit.

• Crescent-chested Warbler Oreothlypis superciliosa

  This small warbler is common in Mexico's mountain pine forests and sometimes moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Ochre-rumped Antbird Drymophila ochropyga

  An antbird of humid forest in Brazil. Males and females differ in head and breast markings.

• Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus

  A goose seen in large flocks in Britain during winter. Its pink feet and pink band on the bill are distinctive.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Black-faced Coucal Centropus melanops

  The Black-faced Coucal is a cuckoo family bird of Philippine forests and forest edges. By day, it searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Javan Fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera

  This small bird lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in western and central Java. It has a brown crown and back, rufous-chestnut rump and wings, and eats insects.

• Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia

  The Antillean Palm-Swift is a small bird that flies over lowlands with palms. Small colonies nest in mats of dead palm fronds.

• Sanford's Sea Eagle Icthyophaga sanfordi

  Sanford’s Sea Eagle is a large raptor found in the Solomon Islands. Observations recorded birds, flying foxes, and large skinks among its prey.

• Gray-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis reyi

  The Gray-capped Hemispingus is found in the northwestern Venezuelan Andes. Its gray hood-like crown contrasts with yellowish-olive plumage.

• Desertas Petrel Pterodroma deserta

  A seabird that breeds on Bugio Island in the Madeira archipelago. During incubation it can make long flights across the North Atlantic; after breeding it winters mainly in the South and West Atlantic.

• Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana

  This small warbler has a grey head and back with a red wing patch. It searches for small insects in savanna, riparian woodland and thickets.

• Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis

  A broad buff eyebrow and rufous-brown upperparts mark this wren. It forages in humid montane forest and scrub in the Peruvian Andes, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Common Hill Partridge Arborophila torqueola

  The Common Hill Partridge is a pheasant relative of forests around the Himalayas. Males have an orange head and dark chest markings, and small groups search the forest floor for food.

• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• 'Elepaio Chasiempis sandwichensis

  This forest bird is endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Adults are dark brown above and white below, and the throat differs between males and females. It searches foliage for small arthropods and also catches prey in flight.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Geelvink Imperial Pigeon Ducula geelvinkiana

  This large pigeon is resident on islands off western New Guinea in Indonesia. It has a pale gray head and breast, iridescent blue-green upperparts, and one mainland record is considered a vagrant.

• Ankober Serin Crithagra ankoberensis

  The Ankober Serin is a small bird of rocky slopes and escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands. It eats grass and herb seeds and can forage in flocks of several dozen.